Nuclear Weapon

MURMANSK : Russia’s Smolensk nuclear-powered submarine has conducted a successful test launch of a cruise missile that hit the designated target in the Barents Sea, the Northern Fleet’s press service said on Wednesday. “From the underwater position, a Granit missile was fired against a combined sea-based target at a distance of about 400 kilometers,” a…

Chinese state-controlled media is hyping the Chinese version of a western invention called a “rim-driven thruster” as the engine that will make the new nuclear powered attack submarines (SSNs) of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) the best on the planet. Chinese engineers are reported to be planning a rim-driven thruster specifically being developed as…

Russia has again said it will soon publicly reveal its new and much delayed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) — the silo-launched RS-28 Sarmat (NATO reporting name, Satan-2) — despite reporting critical delays in production of key components of this heavy ICBM. These delays forced the cancellation of flight tests originally planned for the first three…

Russia might deploy two fantastic nuclear submarines specifically built to survive the deadly cold of the Arctic Circle, and one of these submarines will be the first outfitted with “wings” like an aircraft, that is, if it’s got the money to do so. The advent of these boats specialized to reconnoiter the seafloor of the…

The return of U.S. President Donald Trump to Washington next week will likely set into motion a complex U.S. military plan to attack and destroy facilities associated with North Korea’s nuclear weapons development program. George Friedman, a noted geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs and founder of think tank Geopolitical Futures, assesses the U.S.…

As the 2017 Korean crisis shows no signs of de-escalating, fears of the Korean War resuming continue to grow. On April 28, North Korea conducted a failed missile test only a day after President Donald Trump warned about the possibility of a “major, major conflict” on the peninsula over the North’s nuclear program. The test’s…

“Obviously, it is a flagrant violation of liabilities under the INF Treaty,” the ministry stressed MOSCOW : The United States’ deployment of its Aegis Ashore anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe is a flagrant violation of Washington’s liabilities under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), the Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday commenting on latest…